Advisory Service
Abiding Heart offers a consultancy and mentoring service to teachers, parents and those who homeschool and schools all over the world. This includes homeschools, state schools, independent schools, contemplative based schools, secular and faith based schools, holistic centres, and education and children based NGOs and INGO’s, who are interested in setting up a contemplative based learning programme or transforming their setting into a contemplative based learning environment using the Abiding Heart Education™️ approach.
Implementing Abiding Heart Education™️ in Education Settings
Abiding Heart Education prepares educators with the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding of our early years and primary to early secondary education. We also provide training in caring for and supporting children’s wellbeing.
We partner with education settings who wish to implement the Abiding Heart approach and curriculum. Our approach is based on a worldview of interdependence, experience and applied learning in everyday life. This includes universal values on innate goodness and compassion, holistic view of human development and our transformational and experiential learning styles. Being grounded, we support settings to meet their country’s national curriculum guidelines to ensure that the children’s education prepares them for living and working when they become adult.
To enquire about our advisory and mentoring service, please contact:
Our Heart Wish
Our advisory service is available for schools and education establishments who are planning to send their teachers for our Kindergarten and Primary to Early Secondary teacher education courses. While this service is separate from the teacher training courses it goes hand in hand for those communities who need guidance in how to turn a vision for a contemplative based school into a reality, from: the planning and design stage, to implementation, to making the Abiding Heart Education curriculum work for the school and the community’s own specific needs, to assessment and monitoring as the last phase of the consultancy and mentoring service.
Abiding Heart’s vision in supporting education establishments is to provide an education that integrates interdependence and compassion into every aspect of learning and teaching. In this way, pupils and educators develop wisdom and compassion as they learn. Our vision is for their children to be understood as whole beings from birth, and each phase of their development is recognised and nurtured while allowing for individual differences. The children are immersed in our view of seeing each child as a unique individual and treating children with respect and deep care. The children are engaged in caring for others and for nature through socially and environmentally friendly activities.
Children receive support and love and space from their education community to develop their own unique areas of talent, thus, giving them the confidence they will need to engage in society. Graduates are seen to be responsible and resilient. They are creative, curious, confident, cooperative, committed, and socially aware. Teachers perceive their pupils as equal and unique individuals and they are caring and respectful towards them. They respect children’s opinions and cultivate a culture of attentive and active listening towards children. We believe in nurturing an open and safe environment that encourages students to thrive emotionally, ask questions and think critically about anything they learn.
